The minor rants thread.
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OneNote for desktop is fantastic.
OneNote for UWP (the one built into Windows 10) is meh.OneNote for Android is a pile of dogshit. Edit a page that you edited literally 3 days ago on a desktop? EDITING CONFLICT! OPEN IN DESKTOP TO FIX!!!! Because it somehow hadn't synced that part yet.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
OneNote for desktop is fantastic.
OneNote for UWP (the one built into Windows 10) is meh.And you can have the two of them side-by-side in the same machine! Magic!
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@e4tmyl33t Yes, but they don't exactly advertise the desktop version. If you don't already know it exists, or get it through installing the rest of Office, you'll probably never find it.
I'm pretty sure that if it wasn't technically part of Office, they'd have immediately removed all references to it and downloads the second the Windows 8 version had been out. Because someone declared desktop apps Deprecated™ so who cares about feature parity.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
OneNote for desktop is fantastic.
OneNote for UWP (the one built into Windows 10) is meh.Addendum: FUCK
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I almost regret teaching our report developer about CTEs. Now she uses them everywhere, breaking up joins in somewhat related chunks.
STOP IT
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@boomzilla Oh, and also, every fucking
select
is followed bydistinct
. EVEN WHEN THE QUERY IS AGGREGATING COLUMNS!!!!!111
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@boomzilla Oh, and also, every fucking
select
is followed bydistinct
. EVEN WHEN THE QUERY IS AGGREGATING COLUMNS!!!!!111I've held that if you're using distinct either your data is horribly corrupted or you're doing it wrong.
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@tsaukpaetra said in The minor rants thread.:
I've held that if you're using distinct either your data is horribly corrupted or you're doing it wrong.
No, there are legitimate uses for it. But you should definitely be able to explain why you're using it or you're almost certainly doing something wrong.
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
I almost regret teaching our report developer about CTEs. Now she uses them everywhere, breaking up joins in somewhat related chunks.
STOP IT
I resemble this remark.
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@karla No, you Englishing to good.
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@karla No, you Englishing to good.
Fair enough. Though, sometimes my coworkers get annoyed with me because they have trouble following.
But often the code I'm fixing had joins across 8 or more tables with multiple functions and subqueries in the where clause and I can't fucking follow what the hell is going on.
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@karla In general I only use CTEs when the select either needs to be separate from the rest (e.g., for aggregation purposes) or if I'm going to reuse the results in multiple ways, or if it fools the query optimizer into not doing something retarded.
Her decision criteria appear to be something along the lines of, "I saw put these tables into a CTE once so it must be a good idea."
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@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@karla In general I only use CTEs when the select either needs to be separate from the rest (e.g., for aggregation purposes) or if I'm going to reuse the results in multiple ways, or if it fools the query optimizer into not doing something retarded.
I guess if it runs much faster it fall under this reason?
Her decision criteria appear to be something along the lines of, "I saw put these tables into a CTE once so it must be a good idea."
Nah, I would never do that.
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@karla said in The minor rants thread.:
@boomzilla said in The minor rants thread.:
@karla In general I only use CTEs when the select either needs to be separate from the rest (e.g., for aggregation purposes) or if I'm going to reuse the results in multiple ways, or if it fools the query optimizer into not doing something retarded.
I guess if it runs much faster it fall under this reason?
DB optimizations often come under the heading of black magic. If it works, it works.
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I JUST HAD TO WAIT
OVER TEN WHOLE AND ENTIRE MINUTES
JUST TO USE AN ATM TO DEPOSIT MONEY
IN A BUILDING WITH 5 OF THEMLike what the fuck?!
One was entirely out of order. The other was working except for deposits. That stinks, but still leaves 3.
Two of them were occupied the whole time, and from the queue it looked like those guys had already been there for a while. Like what could you possibly be doing? Who spends 10 minutes operating an ATM? Are you studying your monthly spending? Reading your Twitter feed through that screen? Well fuck off and go do it somewhere else.
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My favorite part of shopping on Amazon is how browsing by category is entirely useless because all of them have hundreds of unrelated cheap items and they clearly have no intention of fixing that.
(it's still worth it for that cheap one-day delivery, but damn)
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@anonymous234
They were just waiting for Bank Of America Vegas Slots(tm) to hit the jackpot and pay out...
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@izzion BOFAVS?
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@izzion Oh god, if gambling wasn't regulated, I'm 100% sure all banks would have a slots machine on every interface you could access your account with.
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@anonymous234 They already offer an investment with low return but with the chance of winning prizes. I'm sure they'll go as far as the law let them.
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Current Balance: 3,536 [ Withdraw ] [ Deposit ] [ Double Or Nothing ]
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My minor rant for today:
So, I got this teacher-in-training I'm the mentor for. He's coming from the industry but decided for raisins that he'd rather teach, thus a career jumper. His primary subject is actually Technical Chemistry (which he got his doctorate in) and Physics is his secondary subject which he never actually studied in depth.
Both the lack in Physics studies and a lack of background in education show.
I'm cutting him a lot of slack but he hasn't quite adjusted from teaching graduate students at university to a school setting - for example, his terms are way too advanced, he doesn't have a feeling for how much time is required for each step (I mean, it's not a matter of "I'm missing five minutes", it's more like 20 minutes) and he doesn't properly prepare his experiments. Among other issues.
Today he let the pupils measure the characteristic curve of a 12 V incandescent lamp and botched it. For several reasons.
- The pupils don't really know yet how to measure voltage and currents - they're not practiced in using the multimeters yet
- The instructions didn't detail the voltage steps to be taken (i.e. "Measure the current resulting from a voltage in steps of 1 V from 0 V to 12 V"), it just said "Take five measurements".
- If you have never taken such a characteristic curve, this is what it roughly looks like for an incadescent:
He fit a linear curve through that. And, since the pupils mostly forgot about the zero point, it wasn't a line through the origin either.
I've done that exact same experiment, too. In comparison with an actual Ohm's resistor to show the difference between an Ohm's resistor (linear correlation between voltage and current) and a non-Ohm's one. The latter of which an incadescent is.
4) He then forgot to discuss what that graph is actually for.
5) And, with a mere 20 minutes to spare, he started the next experiment. Which I knew to be taking 45 minutes.Hoo boy. He has a loooong way to go yet.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm 100% sure all banks would have a slots machine on every interface you could access your account with.
If you've got a bit more, they get very close: they encourage you to manage your stock market investments through them…
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@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm 100% sure all banks would have a slots machine on every interface you could access your account with.
If you've got a bit more, they get very close: they encourage you to manage your stock market investments through them…
Banks-meet-the-lottery is A Thing. The idea is that you have a savings account with some (lower-than-normal) fixed interest rate, plus a lottery that pays out some of the pooled interest of other prize-linked-savings-account holders. It's definitely worse than just having a regular savings account, but the idea is that it distracts lottery-players into saving money rather than blowing it on tickets. You keep every penny you deposited, plus the fixed interest (which may or may not be insultingly low), plus (probably not) any winnings.
It's better than the lottery, by miles! ...which isn't saying terribly much.
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@PotatoEngineer said in The minor rants thread.:
@dkf said in The minor rants thread.:
@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
I'm 100% sure all banks would have a slots machine on every interface you could access your account with.
If you've got a bit more, they get very close: they encourage you to manage your stock market investments through them…
Banks-meet-the-lottery is A Thing. The idea is that you have a savings account with some (lower-than-normal) fixed interest rate, plus a lottery that pays out some of the pooled interest of other prize-linked-savings-account holders. It's definitely worse than just having a regular savings account, but the idea is that it distracts lottery-players into saving money rather than blowing it on tickets. You keep every penny you deposited, plus the fixed interest (which may or may not be insultingly low), plus (probably not) any winnings.
It's better than the lottery, by miles! ...which isn't saying terribly much.
TIL... may have to ditch Wells Fargo, as they just fucked around with the “free” checking quals again. Fuckers...
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Don't ever translate the damn error message that is directed to developers, you're making it hard to google for a solution.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
Hoo boy. He has a loooong way to go yet.
Here's a story from the other side. I was a student-teacher training to teach high-school physics. My master-teacher was the kind where his lesson plans consisted of the worksheets he was handing out that day. One day, the class was to do an electrical experiment to study resistance. A light bulb would be hooked up to a battery with one of the wires replaced with a variable number of paperclips, the idea being that more paperclips would provide more resistance, gradually dimming the bulb. I quickly ran through the experiment before class started and found that the paperclips were too conductive and no amount actually resulted in visible dimming.
I brought this to the attention of the master teacher and he said that the class would watch a video afterwards to see what should have happened.
After a bit more time (and getting electrocuted in a subsequent demonstration), I quit the program.
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@MZH said in The minor rants thread.:
see what should have happened.
FFS ! What's the point of the experiment if it's not demonstrating the principle being taught.??!?
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@Tsaukpaetra It's filler. The real gem is that video!!!
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@MZH That sometimes happens to me as well. But not because of shitty planning but because some experiments don't want to cooperate sometimes.
I'm looking at you, electrostatics!
That whole area is literally dependant on the weather. High humidity? Forget it.
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@Rhywden said in The minor rants thread.:
@MZH That sometimes happens to me as well. But not because of shitty planning but because some experiments don't want to cooperate sometimes.
I'm looking at you, electrostatics!
That whole area is literally dependant on the weather. High humidity? Forget it.
There's an old joke.
Q. Say you fall asleep in a science lecture and when you wake up, you don't remember what class you're in. How do you tell?
A. Look at the demo the professor's doing. If it moves, you're in Biology. If it stinks, you're in Chemistry. And if it doesn't work...must be Physics.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in The minor rants thread.:
Look at the demo the professor's doing. If it moves, you're in Biology. If it stinks, you're in Chemistry. And if it doesn't work...must be Physics.
If you fall asleep before you figure it out, it must be Computer Science.
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@Rhywden I'm annoyed that I didn't think about the fact that almost every kid used mechanical pencils. I could have had them use the graphite to make dimmer switches.
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The Visual Studio "publish application" wizard:
What kind of world do you live in, Microshitters? No one installs from any of these things. They install from a fucking installer file (that's not in a CD-ROM). And I know you know this. Stop lying to me.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
The Visual Studio "publish application" wizard:
What kind of world do you live in, Microshitters? No one installs from any of these things. They install from a fucking installer file (that's not in a CD-ROM). And I know you know this. Stop lying to me.
We still ship CD-ROMs to customers.
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@anonymous234 said in The minor rants thread.:
They install from a fucking installer file (that's not in a CD-ROM). And I know you know this. Stop lying to me.
The CD-ROM build option just makes a we-don't-check-online-for-updates installer though, right?
The option should have been labeled "Standalone (Offline)" IMHO.
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@anonymous234 Note the Windows XP icon? Although NVM drives existed back then, they're certainly weren't as common as they are now. Aside from updating supported crypto options, I'd bet no one's touched the code since it was first written in 2004.
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@anonymous234 The first two use the paths provided to auto-update the application as-needed. The third one doesn't auto-update at all.
And yes it's a good example of bad labeling in a dialog, because there's nothing in the text there that indicates what's really being done with those paths.
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Android really wants you to never do something slow on the UI thread, it gives you an exception if you try to do networking there.
But fucking android studio will block you all the time. I open a second project and it starts downloading an entire new fucking android sdk, and I can't alt+tab to the other project while it is doing it.
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@sockpuppet7 Is there any advantage to the full Android Studio over regular IntelliJ IDEA?
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@pie_flavor dunno
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@sockpuppet7
The correct answer was "no IDEA".
But that one was already used around here recently, so perhaps you can be forgiven.
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Every time I try to learn what some software product is about, their web page feels like I'm on zombo.com. You can enhance all your synergies with [object Object]
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@sockpuppet7 And no one is better at that than IBM.
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@anonymous234 Nice example. What I can do with that product?
Cloud-based solutions — mobile apps — multi-channel enterprise applications: you can build and integrate them all using the latest DevOps services, capabilities and practices from IBM.
If you don't tell me how it will help me with that, you could be talking about a banana here.
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@bjolling said in The minor rants thread.:
@Luhmann said in The minor rants thread.:
Noooooooo!
Wittekerke it is then. Gotcha!
Noooooooo!
Not even FC De Kampioenen
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STOP ABUSING
DISTINCT
IN YOUR FUCKING QUERIES!